Patents by Inventor Ashok Solanky

Ashok Solanky has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10342259
    Abstract: A flavor delivery system includes an oral tobacco product and a flavor inhalation article. The oral tobacco product includes tobacco and a first flavorant. The flavor inhalation article includes a body having an air flow channel therethrough, and a second flavorant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Gerd Kobal, Srinivasan Janardhan, Ashok Solanky, Charles Dendy
  • Publication number: 20180271140
    Abstract: A flavor delivery system includes an oral tobacco product and a flavor inhalation article. The oral tobacco product includes tobacco and a first flavorant. The flavor inhalation article includes a body having an air flow channel therethrough, and a second flavorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Gerd KOBAL, Srinivasan JANARDHAN, Ashok SOLANKY, Charles DENDY
  • Publication number: 20170196260
    Abstract: A virtual or augmented reality smoking system is provided herein. A smoker using the system can experience a virtual reality of smoking by puffing on a cigarette shaped article and experiencing the taste or aroma from the article while simultaneously viewing a generated image of a burning cigarette and exhaled and sidestream smoke. Additionally, the room environment may be simulated to give the experience of smoking in a setting of the smoker's choice (virtual reality) or the image of a burning cigarette and smoke may be superimposed on a live or natural image of the smoker's environment (augmented reality).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Gerd Kobal, Henry Dante, Rangaraj Sundar, Peter Lipowicz, William R Sweeney, Ashok Solanky
  • Patent number: 9648907
    Abstract: A virtual or augmented reality smoking system is provided herein. A smoker using the system can experience a virtual reality of smoking by puffing on a cigarette shaped article and experiencing the taste or aroma from the article while simultaneously viewing a generated image of a burning cigarette and exhaled and sidestream smoke. Additionally, the room environment may be simulated to give the experience of smoking in a setting of the smoker's choice (virtual reality) or the image of a burning cigarette and smoke may be superimposed on a live or natural image of the smoker's environment (augmented reality).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: Gerd Kobal, Henry Dante, Rangaraj Sundar, Peter Lipowicz, William R. Sweeney, Ashok Solanky
  • Publication number: 20070006889
    Abstract: A virtual or augmented reality smoking system is provided herein. A smoker using the system can experience a virtual reality of smoking by puffing on a cigarette shaped article and experiencing the taste or aroma from the article while simultaneously viewing a generated image of a burning cigarette and exhaled and sidestream smoke. Additionally, the room environment may be simulated to give the experience of smoking in a setting of the smoker's choice (virtual reality) or the image of a burning cigarette and smoke may be superimposed on a live or natural image of the smoker's environment (augmented reality).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Inventors: Gerd Kobal, Henry Dante, Rangaraj Sundar, Peter Lipowicz, William Sweeney, Ashok Solanky
  • Publication number: 20060272659
    Abstract: A modular smoking article, method of using same and smoking kit are provided in which a plurality of inner sleeve members have various sized compartments for receiving various mediums within a cigarette smokestream passageway. The inner sleeves are sized so as to individually be received within an outer sleeve which also receives a cigarette at one end and provides a mouthpiece at the other end whereby the cigarette may be smoked with a variety of different volumes of different mediums such as flavoring, filtering or taste mediums in the inner sleeve compartments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: Gerd Kobal, Cindy Hayes, Andrew Livermore, Ashok Solanky
  • Patent number: 6810883
    Abstract: An electrically heated cigarette smoking device includes a heater unit, heater blades for applying heat to portions of a cigarette that is supported within the heater unit, the heater unit having an opening adapted to receive an end of a cigarette and adapted to position the end of the cigarette in proximity to the heater blades, and the heater unit defining at least part of a suction flow passage through which ambient air is drawn into contact with the cigarette when a smoker draws on the cigarette positioned in the heater unit. The heater unit is mounted within a partition that positions the heater unit relative to the housing and at least partially defines a bypass flow passage in fluid communication with ambient air surrounding the housing, the partition further defining a flow diverting passage leading from the bypass flow passage to the suction flow passage and through which ambient air is drawn from the bypass flow passage when a smoker puffs on a cigarette inserted in the heater unit opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Philip Morris USA Inc.
    Inventors: John Louis Felter, Robert E. Lee, Ashok Solanky, Clint Blake, Pamela Davis, David E. Sharpe, Mark E. Watson, Robert L. Ripley, Brett W. Stevenson, William J. Crowe
  • Publication number: 20040200488
    Abstract: An electrically heated cigarette smoking device includes a heater unit, heater blades for applying heat to portions of a cigarette that is supported within the heater unit, the heater unit having an opening adapted to receive an end of a cigarette and adapted to position the end of the cigarette in proximity to the heater blades, and the heater unit defining at least part of a suction flow passage through which ambient air is drawn into contact with the cigarette when a smoker draws on the cigarette positioned in the heater unit. The heater unit is mounted within a partition that positions the heater unit relative to the housing and at least partially defines a bypass flow passage in fluid communication with ambient air surrounding the housing, the partition further defining a flow diverting passage leading from the bypass flow passage to the suction flow passage and through which ambient air is drawn from the bypass flow passage when a smoker puffs on a cigarette inserted in the heater unit opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: PHILIP MORRIS USA, INC.
    Inventors: John Louis Felter, Robert E. Lee, Ashok Solanky, Clint Blake, Pamela Davis, David E. Sharpe, Mark E. Watson, Robert L. Ripley
  • Publication number: 20040089314
    Abstract: An electrically heated cigarette smoking device includes a heater unit, heater blades for applying heat to portions of a cigarette that is supported within the heater unit, the heater unit having an opening adapted to receive an end of a cigarette and adapted to position the end of the cigarette in proximity to the heater blades, and the heater unit defining at least part of a suction flow passage through which ambient air is drawn into contact with the cigarette when a smoker draws on the cigarette positioned in the heater unit. The heater unit is mounted within a partition that positions the heater unit relative to the housing and at least partially defines a bypass flow passage in fluid communication with ambient air surrounding the housing, the partition further defining a flow diverting passage leading from the bypass flow passage to the suction flow passage and through which ambient air is drawn from the bypass flow passage when a smoker puffs on a cigarette inserted in the heater unit opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: John Louis Felter, Robert E. Lee, Ashok Solanky, Clint Blake, Pamela Davis, David E. Sharpe, Mark E. Watson, Robert L. Ripley, Brett W. Stevenson, William J. Crowe